pretty cool that you can still find trees from the original orchards scattered around the area still bearing fruit and also old pieces of the flume lying here and there.
I have a letter written in Italian from Arcadia Orchard Company in New York to my Great grandfather Mike DePaola telling him how much the train ticket to Deer Park from New York. We've always thought that he had seen an ad at the movies. I wonder if I'm watching the same film that he watched 110 years ago. My family has lived in Deer Park ever since.
Hi Tom, Thanks so much for this film. My family have lived at 1302 E Crawford for 45 years and it was the home built for E.N. Robinson who it appears was the president of Arcadia orchards. My mom still has the original blueprints (on linen no less) that have the name E.N. Robinson and the architecture firm as well. This film has been really eye opening and educational for me and my family.
I had a hard time finding this film. I kept looking under early and historic Spokane. I am glad I did find as the film is really fascinating to watch. Thank you Tom
Wow! Could we get a reenactment of that tour around downtown Spokane? It would be fun to see what it looks like now. Trolleys, horses and automobiles! The scene of loading apple boxes onto a train car looks like the street side of the old DP hotel building. And I’m curious, did anyone ever see water flowing in the aqueducts? Are those concrete vents still around? Can you imagine how different Loon Lake would be if the irrigation systems had continued?
@@carolynknapp-nelson9552 You would hope he have come a long way tell you spend time in agriculture and see the amount of tilling and erosion. Even in the palouse. We are not as far as you would hope.
Kinda stresses me out to see horses, pedestrians, cars and trolleys all running around with no traffic lights or guidance! Who the heck has the right of way?! :)
Green Bluff is almost exclusively country mansions housing Spokane’s more affluent class, and their hobby farms, hobby orchards, and tourist traps entertaining other Spokane residents. Deer Park is an actual agricultural community where people earn a living with their fields, orchards and cattle. Some even work 40 hours plus then come home to farm till the wee hours of the morning. You can tell by our houses and fields devoid of tourist signage, sheer ANNOYANCE at city visitors trampling the sunflowers and other crops, and most notably the real estate prices. It’s not even a comparison. BTW - apples are MADE for this weather and do freakin amazing here - you can reference WSU if you doubt me, that’s not why the orchards failed - also reference Apple maggot quarantine area for more info.
pretty cool that you can still find trees from the original orchards scattered around the area still bearing fruit and also old pieces of the flume lying here and there.
I have a letter written in Italian from Arcadia Orchard Company in New York to my Great grandfather Mike DePaola telling him how much the train ticket to Deer Park from New York. We've always thought that he had seen an ad at the movies. I wonder if I'm watching the same film that he watched 110 years ago. My family has lived in Deer Park ever since.
Hi Tom, Thanks so much for this film. My family have lived at 1302 E Crawford for 45 years and it was the home built for E.N. Robinson who it appears was the president of Arcadia orchards. My mom still has the original blueprints (on linen no less) that have the name E.N. Robinson and the architecture firm as well. This film has been really eye opening and educational for me and my family.
I had a hard time finding this film. I kept looking under early and historic Spokane. I am glad I did find as the film is really fascinating to watch. Thank you Tom
Wow! Could we get a reenactment of that tour around downtown Spokane? It would be fun to see what it looks like now. Trolleys, horses and automobiles!
The scene of loading apple boxes onto a train car looks like the street side of the old DP hotel building.
And I’m curious, did anyone ever see water flowing in the aqueducts? Are those concrete vents still around?
Can you imagine how different Loon Lake would be if the irrigation systems had continued?
Glad you found it! One of our tags is Spokane History, so it seems it should have shown up.
Amazingly Beautiful🌹
It's great to see this film restored and preserved. No music credits?
Look at all that soil being blown away!
Pre dust bowl days of the Midwest. We’ve come a long way!
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You would hope he have come a long way tell you spend time in agriculture and see the amount of tilling and erosion. Even in the palouse. We are not as far as you would hope.
That's what I call riding the plow!
This is great, I know my family had links to the orchard at the time. Probably the Mason side of my family.
Kinda stresses me out to see horses, pedestrians, cars and trolleys all running around with no traffic lights or guidance! Who the heck has the right of way?! :)
I wondered the same. I guess stop signs came later!! Lol
Deer Park sucks for apples, colder than Spokane, shorter growing season, late frosts. Green Bluff blew it out of the water.
Green Bluff is almost exclusively country mansions housing Spokane’s more affluent class, and their hobby farms, hobby orchards, and tourist traps entertaining other Spokane residents.
Deer Park is an actual agricultural community where people earn a living with their fields, orchards and cattle. Some even work 40 hours plus then come home to farm till the wee hours of the morning. You can tell by our houses and fields devoid of tourist signage, sheer ANNOYANCE at city visitors trampling the sunflowers and other crops, and most notably the real estate prices. It’s not even a comparison. BTW - apples are MADE for this weather and do freakin amazing here - you can reference WSU if you doubt me, that’s not why the orchards failed - also reference Apple maggot quarantine area for more info.